Live Play Data

Ashnod's Altar

· Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5022

Decks Running

2346

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=717

13%

14%

47%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 16% (66 / 717 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

5023 brought · 1701 players

Brought to game

5023

Ever drawn

1146

Reached battlefield

717

Still on board at game end

557

Once cast, 78% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=654) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3268).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=376).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.1pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1299 instances

3.2%

Library

42.9%

Battlefield

22.6%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 113 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 79 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 68 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 61 decks
5 Ashling, the Limitless 40 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 39 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 39 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 34 decks
9 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 34 decks
10 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 33 decks

Card text

Ashnod's Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Staples

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.